Wis. officials accused of using secret Internet system on taxpayers' dime

12:59 PM,
Mar. 1, 2014

Written by

Matthew DeFour
mdefour@madison.com

Gov. Scott Walker's Milwaukee County executive office was using a secret Internet system as early as the year he took office, according to a former county administrator who said he helped set up the network.

That's several years earlier than prosecutors disclosed in a complaint against one of Walker's former aides who was convicted of using a secret system to campaign on the taxpayers' dime.

In an interview this week, Bob Kiefert said in 2002, when he was Milwaukee County human resources assistant director, he was called into Walker's office by then-deputy chief of staff Tim Russell. ...